4th Amendment LAw
This page will be used to house all of my Issue-Rule-Analysis-Conclusion (IRAC) legal responses from our inquiry into 4th Amendment search and seizure protection. We learned how to protect our rights if ever confronted by an officer and our limited rights in school.
In the Safford USD v. Redding trial, an at school search case, a middle school girl was strip searched after finding out about her drug dealing. The legal question for this case was, did the school officials’ search of Savana Redding’s person violate her 4th Amendment rights?
In the Bond v. United states trial, an reasonable expectation of privacy case, a man’s bag was squeezed leading into a search of the bag, which held methamphetamine, by a Border Patrol agent. We then had to answer the legal question, was Bond’s expectation of privacy violated by Agent Cantu’s ‘squeeze’ of the green canvas bag?
In the Sokolow v. US trial, a search and seizure case, petitioner Andrew Sokolow purchased two round trip plane tickets to Miami, Florida, under the name “Andrew Kray”, for himself and his companion. He was tracked by agents because of various suspicius activity, leading to drug dogs smelling his bags on a sidewalk and having them confiscated. We argued the legal question, did the DEA agents have a reasonable suspicion, as needed under Terry v. Ohio, that respondent was engaged in wrongdoing when they encountered him on the sidewalk?